@@Hanover-ek4jy where? I live here and travel all over be specific sir. And dont say cullman cuz i was just there eating at a mexican restaurant that was packed
This guy Jose is being honest. There are places in Florida that are ghettos. Many people up North buy homes in Florida and pay too much. If you want to buy a home in a low income area fine, but investigate and don't overpay.
@drew michael south FL isn’t considered the south bc it’s a huge melting pot. The norther FL you go, the closer you get to “real southerners” aka racists
Born and raised in Fla. Around the St Johns river between Deland and Umatilla. Made my home out here in Texas in the latter of my life. My heart will always belong to Lake county.
I was raised in Florida since I was 2. Every state has cities and towns that are struggling and are very poor. It’s the USA people... But Florida still has very beautiful parts and growth!! Visit first and leave your opinion from that... but the video was interesting 🧐
Exactly! I live in Utah, have lived in Vegas as well. There are bad areas in every town and city I have been to. I have a villa in sebring, and it's a retirement/hospitality based city. You have high, medium, and low class subdivisions there, just like every other place in America.
I agree. I live in Daytona Beach and I am surprised it didn't make this list with all the druggies/junkies and all, but there are drugs everywhere and in every city. Daytona may be a party town, but there are some beautiful and good places to it. Basically the racetrack and driving on the beach attract people to Daytona.
Boy you crazy 😂 Florida is bad I’ve lived from Dade county broward , fort Myers , Orlando and if you don’t have big money stay your ass out of Florida 🤣 man even south beach has a bad part if you living check to check !
Florida is a mixture of experiences. Weirdest things I saw through the state were things most people don't expect. I saw a man eating a can of cat food at the convenience store in Key West, so not everyone is well to do there. I was stationed in Key West. I was in W. Palm Beach & a man named Mr. Bivens caught snake & froze it in freezers he had. His wife was a housekeeper for the wealthiest gate enclosed places, where rich came down to stay in the winter. These houses had 4 couches, ceramic white rabbits on pink carpets & that's just one of the places she cleaned. No one was there so she would polish the silverware & dust. When I lived up near Jacksonville, one neighbor shot squirrels out of the tree in his front yard & brought them in the house. The man who had a video store down the street used to work barefoot. He was a very nice person. I came out of my house to go to work one morning and a neighbor had fallen asleep in my bushes. He and his girlfriend lived down the street but he claims he got drunk and passed out. He was also barefoot. His girlfriend said she hadn't washed her hair in 2 weeks. Their house had no electricity & they must have been behind on their bills. My husband was a manager at a major truck stop. He came home and told me one 19 year old man was applying for work. One of the questions asked why you left your former job and he had written on the application that it was because he had no shoes. We were living in a rural area outside of Jax. There was a gator sunning himself on the next street & the Wildlife crew had to come and retrieve him. Homeless people were everywhere. The rural locals looked like the movie Deliverance. The irony of it all, is I have a cousin who was born in the wealthy area of Palm Beach and near Boca Raton. Her father was wealthy and the lifestyle was completely different in her area.She had a Corvette when she turned 18. Her husband owned a large company. You can drive a half hour from some areas that are well kept to finding a completely different stratum of society. Florida is unique.
Thank you..this is 100% accurate..I lived in north Florida..Caravelle 2 and a half years, than key large,2 and a half years..and did a lot of traveling all over the state...unless you have serious money you are living on the edge and worse..poverty, crime...and in those cases you are so vulnerable when hurricanes..and now a pandemic ravages ths state..I moved out of the state when the Keys became so over priced regular workers, even police officers could not afford to stay..Really heartbreaking...You have done a beautiful job with the video...Until people recognize thd truth it will only continue to deteriorate.
I deliver gas in the area sometimes and your statement is correct, they love hanging out at night around stores I call them zombies because those people definitely be out of whack lol
Meth is killing stability everywhere across America. Lock everything up and cameras everywhere. As for agricultural towns they will obviously have a bad living wage.
I lived in Miami/Opa-Locka until my kids were born. Miami for me was very depressing and stressful due to high crime rate, poverty, low pay, traffic congestion and folk moving there. You have to be bilingual in order to get a job, and the rent is ridiculously high. I am grateful with the decision I made to move out of FL to ATL. Now I have a better life living stress free and getting paid what I am worth. ++ If you want better, do something about your situation no matter where you live ++
I will say there is some really good people in Florida even in the smaller places, that being said, there is some hateful people too. I'm also a native Floridian, and I have lived in some of the smaller places in Florida as well as a couple of bigger cities too, and I have seen how people can be extremely racist, and I've also met some great people who were not racist at all. I will say though I remember in Mt. Dora back in the early 90's the KKK showed up in the middle of a parade to do a hate demonstration, I was so infuriated with that crap! Although I will say racism is not just by whites, I've seen it in all nationalities here. I want to make that clear, because ignorance comes in all colors, it's not a whites only thing. So many people hate each other. Everyone bitches about the secret ones in power, but what do we do, we still fight with each other over piddly sh** and let that distract us from the real corrupted ones.
Bless you and Eddie.. We need to celebrate the things that make us the same, and stop looking to point out the differences.. I miss when we were judged as one, instead of what we believe, or whom.
People who were born in Florida don't buy on the coast ,, we know about something called huracains,,swamp land is inland, and saver Yankees are sacred of snakes and gators,, we think of them as fla, watch dog's. Keep your money., there's more to life then money,, you judge your life by money,, we judge ours by the person's Hart,.BAM !!
I'm a Florida native and disagree w some of your places. I've lived in Brooksville , Hudson and some others. I'm Hispanic and had wonderful experiences there. Every city has it's bad areas , bad people and poverty. A lot of our problems come from people who move here ,not with natives. If you want to move anywhere just do your research and don't rely on one person's opinion. Stay away from trouble.
@Michelle Tag Actually, at 62 years old that hasn't happened yet . The only harrassment I've gotten is from upper class neighborhood kids . I work in a bad area of town and have never had problems. Thank you for your concern and input.👍
That's the thing there shouldn't be a problem if you're not a native it's a free country that's the problem don't you understand what he's saying I live in Black mountain Anna I'm not a native I'm originally from California
@@patrickglennon6834 Miami Beach isn't anything close to "Hell" if you've got money. Miami Beach is packed full of expensive high rise condos that can be extremely nice, but they are very expensive (remember Miami was the cocaine capital of the U.S. for decades). But the city of Miami (not Miami Beach) on the other side of the bridge has some really, really, bad areas. Miami is a very diverse city and segregated into different communities based on race. The entire state of Florida is separated by the very rich and the very poor. There is almost no middle class (or it appears that way).
I’m a Hispanic and I live in Brooksville/Spring Hill and I can assure you it’s not racist or segregated lol idk where you got that from? I’ve lived here basically my whole life and have never had a race issue. It’s a pretty nice and peaceful area for the most part.
From my experience Spring Hill has a bunch of low life trashy people, when meeting people my race always seemed to be brought up first before how are you doing. Fuck that place.
@@EastRiverHomestead actually Brooksville is not a dem town not even Hernando county. The only Dems in Hernando county are in Spring Hill otherwise known as little New York or Spring Hell
Jeffrey ,WalLace q ride sr see s Nah fam. Lived in FL my whole life & I went down to St. Pete in March and got into my first bad car accident by some dip not paying attention. Could have killed my kids. Won’t catch my rear end down there again.
I moved from the north suburbs of Chicago to Jacksonville in late 2015... when I first got here I hated it. Most people were very rude and there was still alot of racial divide... but I will admit that I am starting to like it here. There's been an exponential amount of growth and you can see it in the housing market. Jacksonville is great if you're into having investment properties. This city has SO MUCH potential. That's why I'm staying... and it seems as if the racism and prejudice has died down quite a bit.
I hate to call your friend a liar but there is def no "klan marching" in brooksville. I'm Hispanic and have been living here since 2005 and I've never dealt with any racism or seen any klan activity. It's also a highly African American populated area.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS the only semblance of any news regarding that I can find happened in 1922. If something like that happened, I would of either seen it or heard about cause it would of been big being that there's small towns around.
Crime is everywhere,due high demand for Drugs we going back to the 80s where things got out of control thanks to our corrupt politicians,helping the Rich screwing low income families
I agree Carlos and it's only going to get worst because now a days who can you call for help when even the police are shooting and killing people for nothing just hope for the best
I agree. I do live Daytona Beach. Daytona does have alot of drugs and downs, but it does have some positive things. Drugs are everywhere in this world. It is the person that has to be strong. If you really want to get high, you will find it somewhere and somehow.
The Democrats have convinced Minorities that Government should provide for them. The poorist people, areas have been victimized by the Democrats. Most of these towns are in wonderful Agriculture dominated areas that have attracted illegal cheap laborers over the past 60 year's.
@@Patrick-yh5yd Very stupid advice from dave ramsey. You will never be able to sell that house. Thats WHERE I AM NOW.. trying to sell a LOW priced house in a place where only RICH people want to buy.. over an year on the market
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS ,,, That's because your land is all they want ,,,If they buy it ,,they want it for land prices so they can build a Big Nice Home there most likely ,,, JMHO
Just came across video and its certainly very informative. I wonder if you have the time if you can do some of the best places to live in FL that is safe to live and isn't too expensive. TY.
I really enjoy these videos, please keep making them, only thing I can suggest is at the end of the video maybe a brief 30 sec - 60 sec part where you can mention some other town / suburbs that also should be mentioned but did not make the list =]
I was born in Miami Florida. My parents lived on 43rd Ave. It was called Carol City then it changed it to Opa Locka. Back in the 70's it was ruff living there it wasn't a save place to live. So we moved out of Florida in 1979. Nothing has changed it's still the same in 41 years ago.
Songbird Bella so sorry to hear that. RIP your son. Is coconut grove really getting bad? Because thats the second neighborhood im thinking about moving to in Miami.
It SHOULD be a federal law, and I don't care who doesn't like the idea, that if you stay in this country for more than two years, legal or not, and you can't speak English then pack your bags because deportation to anywhere else will be the next thing happening to you! No excuses, no exceptions!
Charlse Finnley Hi😊 Mr.Charles, you are incorrect about the homicide rate in Tallahassee Florida. 3-4....a year? Try - “22” in Leon County ,and “17” in Tallahassee last year. Already counting,and it’s not even a month into 2020😳🥺🙄🙏
I just moved from Ft Myers, I lived there for 15 yrs. You are so correct in saying there are a lot of rude people there. I was fortunate enough to live in the Gateway area and it was a nice neighborhood. Now I'm in South Tampa. I grew up here and a lot has changed. Left here in 1996, lived in Clermont Fl for 8 yrs left there and that's how I ended up in Ft Myers. What do you know about Clermont just out of curiosity?
to be honest, no offence intended... too many car dealerships! LOL - than all the homeless along 50.. what a SAD road. 50 gets really nice heading towards brooksville. I think that area has NATURAL beauty, rolling hills and oak trees but clearly something is wrong with the people why so many on the street is heart breaking.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I didn't know all that was going on, it's been many years since we've lived there...very sad. Glad I found you and looking forward to more of your videos! 😊
John Livingston / I’m in Gainesville. Are you South or North Florida? Look into “Ubuntu” from Michael Tellinger. Look at his website. You may have a way out!
I moved to SWFL over a year ago. For the most part, I love the people and the state. So much to do and easy to drive to different cities. The main issue I see in Florida is the amount of drug users. It's very sad to see so many broken people in such a beautiful state. Also, Florida residents could benefit so much from baiting in tech companies, etc.. There is not a lot high paying jobs in this state.
I think you did a very good job with this video. You don't pull punches or try to be politically correct. I have lived in South Florida for almost 25 years, and I have visited and worked in a number of the places you mentioned. One thing I noticed is that if you go to an area and everyone has fences, especially covering the front yard and driveway, watch out it a pretty bad area, unless its very wealthy. The Homeowners associations for the newer neighborhoods can hide bad neighborhoods to, because they look good due to the rules of the associations, but that is just the outer appearance Basically any area that is good or decent is pretty expensive in a lot of South and Central Florida now. Room is running out for new construction in Broward County and now the trend is to start to build up. The traffic hear is getting like NJ and NY, and even outside of rush hour in Dade county there is tons of traffic. Iv been to lots of places in the U.S. and drivers here are the worse iv seen in the U.S. One of the big problems is that many people are from somewhere else and some of them act like they are the most important people in the world because they have arrived here, this is true of Americans moving here from the North and West, as well as people from South America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The attitude towards work in South Florida is sloppy and you have to double check everything because so few people do a decent job at the work they do. While I like Florida and plan to stay here, it is not the paradise people think it is. It is a lot more expensive here than it was 20 years ago but wages are pretty flat. New money from people moving here from colder parts of the U.S. and from the rest of the world is constantly pushing up housing prices. Not only this but a lot of drug traffickers, money launderers, organized crime and people with lots and lots of money fleeing foreign countries for various reasons live here and have unbalanced the economy here for the last 40 years. There is a lot of poverty here, far more than people realize. The fact that its warm almost all the time helps hide the fact that there are a lot of homeless and very poor people that live in structures that they would not survive in through a northern winter. I fear with all the northerners fleeing the failing northern tax ridden bankrupt northern states, that Florida might start down the same path that is causing the collapse of some of those states because they have not learned from those disasters.
Scott Perry, Amelia Island (Fernandina Beach) Yulee, Jacksonville, Like Florida Hood Blogs says-The same path! On Amelia they are pushing the poor and working class off the Island, into the woods in tents, their car. rents are way to high.
I lived in Homestead and loved it before the big Hurricane came through and decimated the homes and businesses. Raleigh is full of Spanish people. If you go through there, you think you're in a foreign country.
I know immokolee and belle glade I drove through the towns when I went to those places in 2009 I was shocked by the level of poverty that I witness I was visiting from Jamaica and I could not believe that such poverty existed in the United States of America 🇺🇸
Had family in the area- there are a "lot" of illegals in the area. Immokalee also has a huge drug problem, and the casino in the midst of a poor and working class area does not help at all. When Rick Scott was still governor but running for the Senate, he met with a group of Pastors from there and other areas, they asked him for assistance with getting a Detox/Treatment facility out there due to the drug use etc. There is mostly farming, and cattle, some hospitality industry...then of course the indian casino in the midst of all the poverty. There is drug and human trafficking in these types of areas. It is great for the traveling traffickers of human misery to go through and offer their goods and re_supply their sellers I am sure. It is sad.
Thanks! We really appreciated YOUR VEDIOS about north Florida!!! Omg!!! My wife and I was looking into buying properties there!!! Wow!!! RACISM! Thank u God!!! No way will I invest
FLORIDA HOOD VLOGS I think bailey is talking about the ignorance overall. I see Indian river and some parts of Port Saint Lucie and it’s very confederate views and it’s scary.
Mr. Bailey, racist exists everywhere. I am from Florida. It is nothing like he us making it out to be by far. I numerous mixed friends and family. I love them all. I live in Wisconsin for awhile and you want to talk about racism. I felt like I was back in the early 70tys. I am not by far racist. A true Floridian, is always friendly and willing to help someone. You can tell if someone is from Florida or a transplant from somewhere else. Please dont let this video think everyone is like that. May you have a Blessed day.
I am a native Florida boy who has grown to be a proud Florida man. And I have to say you hit the nail on the head. I drive around towns and visit friends all over this state as an Uber driver. And I love how you show the footage of the real neighborhoods and give an honest observant opinion that is reflected by data. Keep up the good work! And all of you yanks are welcome to visit but please consider retiring in your own state to help with traffic, and wildlife conservation here... you'll probly like it better anyways :)
That's because the more north you go, the closer you are to Alabama. The further south you go, you're closer to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. It makes sense if you've ever looked at a map.
I live in North Florida and love it - a lot of big oak trees and hanging moss- north Florida also has a lot of clear springs and rivers- I think you could just say we are south Georgia
You know why cause yanks bought south fl then cubans bought some of them out later there are still southerners scattered out down there but most of us are in north fl
I grew up in soflo..Miami and Hollywood to be exact. As a healthcare provider (RN)the pay sucks compared to other states, I've lived in VA, NH, and OR and even TN paid better..I'm back in soflo because of my son right now, but I'm def leaving as soon as I can..the income has not caught up with the cost of living, compared to other states, it's crazy. Unless you're a traveler, its soooooo not worth it......
@@garygill5530 as soon as I get my son settled..ish...lol. it's his last year in high school and I'm helping him with that transition a bit...but yes I want to so bad I have alot of friends that have loved it. I've been on a midwifery journey and have lived in other states for internship opportunities, but that's on hold.
I was sent to America by a European country (exchange teacher) in Florida actually. I rented a car from the airport but I got lost trying to go to Pompano beach. I found myself and my daughter in a ghetto and we were the only 2 white females in a nasty mini market. A "black angel" (sent by God) approached and whispered in my ear that that was a really dangerous place. He offered to lead us to Pompano beach where he first stopped at the Fire station to assure us about his good intentions. The guard agreed that indeed we were in a bad area but now we were safe! I had in my suitcase a bottle of fine cognac and I offered it to this so kind black man who rescued us. Later on I bought a townhouse in Kendall Miami, a pretty nice area...but life made me and my daughter relocate to VA, NC, GA, SC, KY. I always have a special place in my heart for Florida smth like a supernatural feeling that I had lived here in a previous life...
I lived in the Fort Myers/Cape coral are on and off most of my life. I will NEVER move back again, besides the enormous drug problems, the traffic is so bad. It's certainly not the town I grew up in anymore. And you are right, SO MANY RUDE PEOPLE. But also some good people too. Ironically, the areas of Fort Myers that you mentioned were bad 50 years ago. I'm surprised you didn't include Lehigh acres. Because the crime there has gotten so out of control. The drugs on Fort Myers beach, took my only son last March, beware of even the "wealthy areas". I live in Michigan now in a beautiful small town where the biggest issue is vaping. I can live with that.
Thank You for taking the time to make this list so myself & others know areas to steer clear of. Although living in the Keys has always been a dream for me!! Any advice on areas out there?? Would be much appreciated. 🙂
living in the keys? you might not really understand what you are saying. Its not a place to live its a place to vacation. Marathon is the only place there worth living.
I'm from Brooksville and I can tell u beyond any shadow of a doubt that racism is not a huge driving factor in the city and the reason why u notice such a separation of the races is due to the fact that most white people in Brooksville either inherited large portions of land or bought and farm the land.
I bought a brand new newly constructed Lennar Townhome in Hudson, FL, right off 589 and 52...and I love it I bought almost 4 years ago...havent had any issues
So why are Florida's rural towns and newly developed cities poor? 1. Rural towns - no "industrial" jobs, no service jobs since no one afford services. Not unique to Florida. Exception that I am aware of - Perry, FL is booming with industrial development and looking much better in the last 10-20 years. 2. Poverty in the cities - low wages in an expensive area. Illegal employment is rampant and is driving down wages. Not unique to Florida.
It breaks my heart to see those places in my Home State in such poverty. I have spend a lot of time in South Florida . Yet it was in the Coco Beach Area. Mostly older retired people or in my case. All family members worked at the Cape. I prefer Northern Florida. However all places have there own set of issues.
In Northwest Florida housing is not commiserate with income anymore. Hurricanes and tornados regularly take out blocks of neighborhoods and new homes are not being built to replace them causing an affordable housing shortage. Also, we absorb each other's displaced residents after disasters, contibuting more to the lack of housing and the predicatable housing price gouging that ensues. I think your title should specify that you cover South Florida ONLY. There's A LOT more to Florida than just the tip and a lot more poverty and blight and crime than you give us credit for..
Graduated high school in 1961 in Vero Beach Florida . I left in 63, I have no intentions of ever going back if I can avoid it. there was no jobs for high-school kid, the only thing you had was the service industry. if you were lucky you could get a job at Piper aircraft but they were due to a lot of layoffs. I don't have any desire to go back to any part of Florida.
I’m calling you out on Fort Myers. This is a nice place to live and people aren’t rude. It does not cater to low income people however. There is crime everywhere you go. There is always a seedy neighborhood in every town. If you have money you can build or buy a beautiful home in Fort Myers. I don’t find this area rude at all.
I lived in Sarasota my whole life. My husband and I visit brooksville alot because he likes to fish up there. We always get stares and looks all the time. My husband got called a n***** lover a few times. We eventually stopped going up there because I became pregnant and my husband didn't want our kids to see that. I'm a Afrolatina ( which means half black half hispanic) and he's white.
It’s an unaffordable place even for the people who’ve lived here their whole life. Everything that’s being built in south Florida is luxury and just the starting prices are so high I mean 300k for an apt in downtown it’s 800k! It’s becoming like California as the housing is going to start getting way out of hand on top of property taxes and insurance. Just be paying out the bum just to live and be stuck in a lot of traffic
I am sitting on my couch laughing my butt off. I don't know where you got your information from , cause you seem to have left out Orlando Apopka Winter Garden Ocoee Altamonte Springs Sanford I could go on forever it doesn't matter where you move to there is always good and bad places to live. I'm 5th generation Floridian and moved from there in 2005 and have not missed it at all. Do better recherche on Florida and just don't go by what you read, go into those city's and townes and talk to the people that live there.
Yeah, I lived in the Orlando/Kissimmee area for 12 years and I watched the video thinking I'd see places I remembered (like many of the places you mentioned). Christmas was... interesting. The only place mentioned in the video that I had been to was Sebring, and what little I saw while I was there wasn't bad, but wasn't too exciting either.
Sooo glad for your videos of educating us, For those of us who are thinking of moving to Florida, Cuz before I saw your videos, I was seriously contemplating on moving there maybe next yr. But now I'm re thinking it, & I'm not going to risk losing everything, So I've completely changed my plans about moving down there from Pa.
From Arcadia, you're not wrong! We do have Port Charlotte south of us which is closer than Sarasota as far as shopping and jobs but it's still a 30 minute drive. But your right about everything else! The mining is a real issue along with the gang activity! I'll leave it at that!
lived there in the 80's almost starved to death would not eat 2 days a week so i could have money to buy gas to go to work as an elect on construction did not drink or smoke or gamble or do drugs Florida is not a place if you have to work .
Hey I live in Naples. But I want buy some in Lehigh. Can’t afford to live in Naples. I bet been watching your video on Lehigh. So practically there’s no where safe to live over there. Or what do u recommend is a safer area over there? Now I’m really changing my mind. Cuz I see it’s not a good neighborhood. What would u suggest ? Naples the land is gone up high. Which sucks.
Born and raised in Miami here. I once took the Metrorail (if you're from Miami you'll know what I'm talking about) to the wrong stop, I forget if it was Overtown or Brownsville but when I got off and went downstairs there were about 50 Black kids yelling and screaming curse words at me telling me they were gonna rob me and kill me if I didn't give them my money. LOL. I was scared shitless. It was the wrong stop. Thankfully the old station attendant told me to get out of there before I get beat up or worse. The police did come eventually and kicked those kids away. NW Miami is VERY rough and if you're not from the neighborhood there and Black you need to stay away. Lots of angry African American folks live there who hate Hispanics and White people and anyone else who's not Black.
Also born and raised here, back in the 60's, my brother and I somehow drove in the wrong part of Miami, We were approached by some black people, yelling at us to get out of their neighborhood, a scary moment for us
Road the metrorail once or twice when it first opened, can't imagine what it's like now. South Fla has changed so much and crime has increased, but seems it doesn't matter where you live
@@vickipaez6945 South Florida has become a nightmare. It's not just the crime but it's become a sort of LA or NY of the South. Way too many people, too much traffic, bad attitudes, rudeness, no sense of community, and it's gotten so expensive. I actually never really liked it there and have been living away from there for the most part since 2002. My family kept me moving back a few times after living in New York and out West. I finally left for the last time and never looked back, in 2015. I now live in Arizona and love it here. It's way better.
UPDATE: I MOVED TO ALABAMA. Now I make 2x MORE MONEY and DOING MUCH BETTER> Glad I LEFT FLORIDA best thing i ever did.
I can show some towns in Alabama that would scare the crap out of you! Jim Crow all over again!
@@Hanover-ek4jy where? I live here and travel all over be specific sir. And dont say cullman cuz i was just there eating at a mexican restaurant that was packed
right on brother i live in NW Florida soon i will be buying property in Alabama and moving there .
@@bloodyblade916 i am in panhandle now on the beach... this area is great
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS , i never said it wasn't great in Florida , but land is cheaper in Alabama i want horses and a few cattle,
This guy Jose is being honest. There are places in Florida that are ghettos. Many people up North buy homes in Florida and pay too much. If you want to buy a home in a low income area fine, but investigate and don't overpay.
I live in north Florida. Just remember one rule. The further north you go the farther south you get.
Duval county
@drew michael Yankees like south Florida but generally don't like north Florida
@drew michael the closer you get to the top of Florida, the closer you get to the Deep South of Georgia, and the northern Florida Hicks.
@drew michael south FL isn’t considered the south bc it’s a huge melting pot. The norther FL you go, the closer you get to “real southerners” aka racists
@Tony Alai 🤣🤣🤣 you’re a joke, asshole
Born and raised in Fla. Around the St Johns river between Deland and Umatilla. Made my home out here in Texas in the latter of my life. My heart will always belong to Lake county.
The most beautiful county in Florida I have seen ❤
I was raised in Florida since I was 2. Every state has cities and towns that are struggling and are very poor. It’s the USA people... But Florida still has very beautiful parts and growth!! Visit first and leave your opinion from that... but the video was interesting 🧐
Exactly! I live in Utah, have lived in Vegas as well. There are bad areas in every town and city I have been to. I have a villa in sebring, and it's a retirement/hospitality based city. You have high, medium, and low class subdivisions there, just like every other place in America.
its always the areas that vote blue just look at Chicago
I agree. I live in Daytona Beach and I am surprised it didn't make this list with all the druggies/junkies and all, but there are drugs everywhere and in every city. Daytona may be a party town, but there are some beautiful and good places to it. Basically the racetrack and driving on the beach attract people to Daytona.
I live in Florida that is very true
@@justinmcloughlin6375 really
no place is perfect, life is what you make it...
It's not that simple! The world is a big place and some places are better than others! And most people have preferences! Why not?
Boy you crazy 😂 Florida is bad I’ve lived from Dade county broward , fort Myers , Orlando and if you don’t have big money stay your ass out of Florida 🤣 man even south beach has a bad part if you living check to check !
Not for long, pal
@D Ddd tell em
Andy Gadd not really how much you need in the bank but it’s more what you need coming in to live well and I need atleast 2500 a week to live well
Northwest Miami and surrounding areas, over crowded, if you don't speak spanish, stay away. High crime.
Excellent advice 👍🏾
Not in Panhandle
I know that's right! I never go south of Hollywood even that's pushing the language barrier...no hablo!!
All Florida has a huge difference in income and cost of living! Im a native 62 yr old. I know!
Florida is a mixture of experiences. Weirdest things I saw through the state were things most people don't expect. I saw a man eating a can of cat food at the convenience store in Key West, so not everyone is well to do there.
I was stationed in Key West.
I was in W. Palm Beach & a man named Mr. Bivens caught snake & froze it in freezers he had. His wife was a housekeeper for the wealthiest gate enclosed places, where rich came down to stay in the winter. These houses had 4 couches, ceramic white rabbits on pink carpets & that's just one of the places she cleaned. No one was there so she would polish the silverware & dust.
When I lived up near Jacksonville, one neighbor shot squirrels out of the tree in his front yard & brought them in the house.
The man who had a video store down the street used to work barefoot. He was a very nice person.
I came out of my house to go to work one morning and a neighbor had fallen asleep in my bushes. He and his girlfriend lived down the street but he claims he got drunk and passed out. He was also barefoot. His girlfriend said she hadn't washed her hair in 2 weeks. Their house had no electricity & they must have been behind on their bills.
My husband was a manager at a major truck stop. He came home and told me one 19 year old man was applying for work. One of the questions asked why you left your former job and he had written on the application that it was because he had no shoes.
We were living in a rural area outside of Jax.
There was a gator sunning himself on the next street & the Wildlife crew had to come and retrieve him.
Homeless people were everywhere. The rural locals looked like the movie Deliverance.
The irony of it all, is I have a cousin who was born in the wealthy area of Palm Beach and near Boca Raton. Her father was wealthy and the lifestyle was completely different in her area.She had a Corvette when she turned 18. Her husband owned a large company.
You can drive a half hour from some areas that are well kept to finding a completely different stratum of society. Florida is unique.
😂 crazy world definitely
I hate it
Thank you..this is 100% accurate..I lived in north Florida..Caravelle 2 and a half years, than key large,2 and a half years..and did a lot of traveling all over the state...unless you have serious money you are living on the edge and worse..poverty, crime...and in those cases you are so vulnerable when hurricanes..and now a pandemic ravages ths state..I moved out of the state when the Keys became so over priced regular workers, even police officers could not afford to stay..Really heartbreaking...You have done a beautiful job with the video...Until people recognize thd truth it will only continue to deteriorate.
A map with the locations would be helpful in a video like this- we are not from Florida. Thanks for taking time to make a video!
check out our videos!!! thanks all you will need to know about florida is here
Arcadia is my hometown meth and pain pills have destroyed that little town.
So sad
I deliver gas in the area sometimes and your statement is correct, they love hanging out at night around stores I call them zombies because those people definitely be out of whack lol
many little towns!
Meth is killing stability everywhere across America. Lock everything up and cameras everywhere. As for agricultural towns they will obviously have a bad living wage.
I literally NEVER heard of Arcadia until I joined the military a few months ago.
Thank you for a great affirmation of how Florida really exists. You have given people a great form of information. :). From a Floridan :). 🌟🧡⭐️🌺🌸✨
I lived in Miami/Opa-Locka until my kids were born. Miami for me was very depressing and stressful due to high crime rate, poverty, low pay, traffic congestion and folk moving there. You have to be bilingual in order to get a job, and the rent is ridiculously high. I am grateful with the decision I made to move out of FL to ATL. Now I have a better life living stress free and getting paid what I am worth. ++ If you want better, do something about your situation no matter where you live ++
You did your research I live in Central Florida and have been too many of these towns and your description is accurate
been all over FL as well
I 100% agree with the cities mentioned, especially your view on #1. The video is spot-on!
I will say there is some really good people in Florida even in the smaller places, that being said, there is some hateful people too. I'm also a native Floridian, and I have lived in some of the smaller places in Florida as well as a couple of bigger cities too, and I have seen how people can be extremely racist, and I've also met some great people who were not racist at all. I will say though I remember in Mt. Dora back in the early 90's the KKK showed up in the middle of a parade to do a hate demonstration, I was so infuriated with that crap! Although I will say racism is not just by whites, I've seen it in all nationalities here. I want to make that clear, because ignorance comes in all colors, it's not a whites only thing. So many people hate each other. Everyone bitches about the secret ones in power, but what do we do, we still fight with each other over piddly sh** and let that distract us from the real corrupted ones.
I also am a native Floridian and totally agree with you.... especially about the racism...all colors are racist...not just whites
Bless you and Eddie.. We need to celebrate the things that make us the same, and stop looking to point out the differences.. I miss when we were judged as one, instead of what we believe, or whom.
They often overlook the hate between colored people. It is a silent weapon.
You so right .
It still exists in Mt Dora speaking from experiencing an incident personally with a gentleman at a Walmart.
The big money lives on the water, the small money lives on the swamps. BAM!
That's the fucking truth
West Palm beach is the perfect example
Trump on the beach
The hood 6 miles west
Over the train tracks
People who were born in Florida don't buy on the coast ,, we know about something called huracains,,swamp land is inland, and saver Yankees are sacred of snakes and gators,, we think of them as fla, watch dog's. Keep your money., there's more to life then money,, you judge your life by money,, we judge ours by the person's Hart,.BAM !!
Both are water.
Thanks. You put a lot of work into this, and you know a lot of Florida. As a long-tune resident, I can appreciate that.
Thanks
This guy does not know shit about Florida. He goes off of what he reads or hears. That doesn't es not mean he I'm ws a lot about Florida.
I'm a Florida native and disagree w some of your places. I've lived in Brooksville , Hudson and some others. I'm Hispanic and had wonderful experiences there. Every city has it's bad areas , bad people and poverty. A lot of our problems come from people who move here ,not with natives. If you want to move anywhere just do your research and don't rely on one person's opinion. Stay away from trouble.
@Michelle Tag Actually, at 62 years old that hasn't happened yet . The only harrassment I've gotten is from upper class neighborhood kids . I work in a bad area of town and have never had problems. Thank you for your concern and input.👍
That's the thing there shouldn't be a problem if you're not a native it's a free country that's the problem don't you understand what he's saying I live in Black mountain Anna I'm not a native I'm originally from California
Love visiting Florida, I will continue to do so, once covid19 pisses off!
MIAMI BEACH IS HELL ON EARTH
Used to be awesome now it’s a ghetto
why?
@@patrickglennon6834 Miami Beach isn't anything close to "Hell" if you've got money. Miami Beach is packed full of expensive high rise condos that can be extremely nice, but they are very expensive (remember Miami was the cocaine capital of the U.S. for decades). But the city of Miami (not Miami Beach) on the other side of the bridge has some really, really, bad areas. Miami is a very diverse city and segregated into different communities based on race. The entire state of Florida is separated by the very rich and the very poor. There is almost no middle class (or it appears that way).
I’m a Hispanic and I live in Brooksville/Spring Hill and I can assure you it’s not racist or segregated lol idk where you got that from? I’ve lived here basically my whole life and have never had a race issue. It’s a pretty nice and peaceful area for the most part.
From my experience Spring Hill has a bunch of low life trashy people, when meeting people my race always seemed to be brought up first before how are you doing. Fuck that place.
@@EastRiverHomestead yet Florida is a Republican controlled shit hole.
Are u a caucasian phenotype Hispanic? That makes a difference...
Simba Gonzalez He is just trying to get clicks and views
@@EastRiverHomestead actually Brooksville is not a dem town not even Hernando county. The only Dems in Hernando county are in Spring Hill otherwise known as little New York or Spring Hell
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life and there’s no amount of money that you could pay me to live in south Florida. Some things $ cannot buy.
especially Miami !!!
South Florida is just better than north Florida
South Floridians are mad at the rest of Florida because they have to travel the furthest to go to a different state
Nasty rude Cubans everywhere
Jeffrey ,WalLace q ride sr see s Nah fam. Lived in FL my whole life & I went down to St. Pete in March and got into my first bad car accident by some dip not paying attention. Could have killed my kids. Won’t catch my rear end down there again.
I agree with you on these places in Fl I've been all over Fl👍
I moved from the north suburbs of Chicago to Jacksonville in late 2015... when I first got here I hated it. Most people were very rude and there was still alot of racial divide... but I will admit that I am starting to like it here. There's been an exponential amount of growth and you can see it in the housing market. Jacksonville is great if you're into having investment properties. This city has SO MUCH potential. That's why I'm staying... and it seems as if the racism and prejudice has died down quite a bit.
Beautiful towns !!!
Florida is one of my favorite places, coz the people are friendly, compared to the rest of the people in the country.
you should go to South GA !! they friendly
Uhhhh some are, lol
The best part of these towns is the road out of town
You walk into a bar in Arcadia bartender will ask if you have a gun if you say no he'll say here's a loner.
Bye felicia
Jordan Price i dont get it
All of Florida is a shithole
very untrue. You ever been to St Agustine? the oldest city in USA? how about South Tampa hyde park.. PLENTY of amazing spots in Florida.
I think you nailed it. 20 years in Ft Myers and I would have to say I agree with you about everything you said in this video.
I hate to call your friend a liar but there is def no "klan marching" in brooksville. I'm Hispanic and have been living here since 2005 and I've never dealt with any racism or seen any klan activity. It's also a highly African American populated area.
Henry Thillet glad to hear that. I saw the news report myself so, he ant lie
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS the only semblance of any news regarding that I can find happened in 1922. If something like that happened, I would of either seen it or heard about cause it would of been big being that there's small towns around.
You have to remember if your rebublican you are the K.K.K .
EVEN THOUGH KKK Is a democrat organisation
Odis Yates Republicans are not KKK. You’re racist just for saying that.
@@SuperJMichael But they're good people on both sides, right??? Lolol
Crime is everywhere,due high demand for Drugs we going back to the 80s where things got out of control thanks to our corrupt politicians,helping the Rich screwing low income families
I agree Carlos and it's only going to get worst because now a days who can you call for help when even the police are shooting and killing people for nothing just hope for the best
Your local armory has the solution
I agree. I do live Daytona Beach. Daytona does have alot of drugs and downs, but it does have some positive things. Drugs are everywhere in this world. It is the person that has to be strong. If you really want to get high, you will find it somewhere and somehow.
@@billiedeffenbaugh7450 very true but it's very very sad I feel sorry for anyone who brings a child into today's world I know I wouldn't
The Democrats have convinced Minorities that Government should provide for them.
The poorist people, areas have been victimized by the Democrats.
Most of these towns are in wonderful Agriculture dominated areas that have attracted illegal cheap laborers over the past 60 year's.
Funny how people always try to put a political or racist spin on things that have nothing to do with that
Welcome to the You Tube comments section lol
you look for a town with high prices and buy a cheap house there.
@@Patrick-yh5yd Very stupid advice from dave ramsey. You will never be able to sell that house. Thats WHERE I AM NOW.. trying to sell a LOW priced house in a place where only RICH people want to buy.. over an year on the market
FLORIDA HOOD VLOGS the market is slow, my 2 homes won’t sell.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS ,,, That's because your land is all they want ,,,If they buy it ,,they want it for land prices so they can build a Big Nice Home there most likely ,,, JMHO
Port Saint Lucie is a beautiful town! Lived here all my life!
Fort Pierce>>>
I live in Stuart! 😁👋
Just came across video and its certainly very informative. I wonder if you have the time if you can do some of the best places to live in FL that is safe to live and isn't too expensive. TY.
Ivorine Gardner yes we have explore our channel
I really enjoy these videos, please keep making them, only thing I can suggest is at the end of the video maybe a brief 30 sec - 60 sec part where you can mention some other town / suburbs that also should be mentioned but did not make the list =]
Shaun Hogan good suggestion! I thought about it for this video but when it got to be so long i had to shorten it up.
I was born in Miami Florida. My parents lived on 43rd Ave. It was called Carol City then it changed it to Opa Locka. Back in the 70's it was ruff living there it wasn't a save place to live. So we moved out of Florida in 1979. Nothing has changed it's still the same in 41 years ago.
Carol City is now called Miami Gardens.
You did not mention Coconut Grove. It is drug-infested and becoming Killer Grove. My oldest son was murdered there so I moved out of Florida.
You're correct, sorry about your loss
God bless you. Condolences. ❤️
@@vaugustine1594 why would you say that fuck nigga I bet you not from Miami
v Augustine your POS
Songbird Bella so sorry to hear that. RIP your son. Is coconut grove really getting bad? Because thats the second neighborhood im thinking about moving to in Miami.
You provide a good service with this video. People need to be aware before some slick real estate agent sucks them in.
It SHOULD be a federal law, and I don't care who doesn't like the idea, that if you stay in this country for more than two years, legal or not, and you can't speak English then pack your bags because deportation to anywhere else will be the next thing happening to you! No excuses, no exceptions!
Richard Cline boy fuck you. Not everyone has the time to learn it nor people to teach them.
Richard Cline agree 100%
Iris Torres no fuck u biner. Go back if u don’t like it . You love this country or you leave and go where the fuck you came from
Ok boomer
I agree with this video 100% so quit running down here from New York California Boston Maryland is hardly any Floridians left
Homestead the Redlands prior to hurricane Andrew was heaven.
Really how so please tell me
Yes, my sister lived there in the 70's. I got divine childhood 📝 memories!
@@SuperJRREID Was not overly developed, yet close to Miami...safe, affordable and good people. 🌴
Hopefully people in Tallahassee watch this n c how our politicians simply don't do their jobs...
Tallahassee has the highest crime rates in Florida. FACT
Charlse Finnley Hi😊 Mr.Charles, you are incorrect about the homicide rate in Tallahassee Florida. 3-4....a year? Try - “22” in Leon County ,and “17” in Tallahassee last year. Already counting,and it’s not even a month into 2020😳🥺🙄🙏
I live in Tally and I see..sad
Charlse Finnley 34 shootings 12 homicides in 2020 so far and it was 21 last year...where tf u get 3 or 4 from? 🤨
Keep voting for the GOP
Your video was very informative, thank you for sharing.
I just moved from Ft Myers, I lived there for 15 yrs. You are so correct in saying there are a lot of rude people there. I was fortunate enough to live in the Gateway area and it was a nice neighborhood. Now I'm in South Tampa. I grew up here and a lot has changed. Left here in 1996, lived in Clermont Fl for 8 yrs left there and that's how I ended up in Ft Myers. What do you know about Clermont just out of curiosity?
to be honest, no offence intended... too many car dealerships! LOL - than all the homeless along 50.. what a SAD road. 50 gets really nice heading towards brooksville. I think that area has NATURAL beauty, rolling hills and oak trees but clearly something is wrong with the people why so many on the street is heart breaking.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I didn't know all that was going on, it's been many years since we've lived there...very sad. Glad I found you and looking forward to more of your videos! 😊
@@lynnh4923 thanks
Born here and hate it.i want to thank everyone for ruining my home town
John Livingston / I’m in Gainesville. Are you South or North Florida? Look into “Ubuntu” from Michael Tellinger. Look at his website. You may have a way out!
veronica carlson / I’m so sorry!
I moved to SWFL over a year ago. For the most part, I love the people and the state. So much to do and easy to drive to different cities. The main issue I see in Florida is the amount of drug users. It's very sad to see so many broken people in such a beautiful state. Also, Florida residents could benefit so much from baiting in tech companies, etc.. There is not a lot high paying jobs in this state.
I think you did a very good job with this video. You don't pull punches or try to be politically correct. I have lived in South Florida for almost 25 years, and I have visited and worked in a number of the places you mentioned. One thing I noticed is that if you go to an area and everyone has fences, especially covering the front yard and driveway, watch out it a pretty bad area, unless its very wealthy. The Homeowners associations for the newer neighborhoods can hide bad neighborhoods to, because they look good due to the rules of the associations, but that is just the outer appearance Basically any area that is good or decent is pretty expensive in a lot of South and Central Florida now. Room is running out for new construction in Broward County and now the trend is to start to build up.
The traffic hear is getting like NJ and NY, and even outside of rush hour in Dade county there is tons of traffic. Iv been to lots of places in the U.S. and drivers here are the worse iv seen in the U.S. One of the big problems is that many people are from somewhere else and some of them act like they are the most important people in the world because they have arrived here, this is true of Americans moving here from the North and West, as well as people from South America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The attitude towards work in South Florida is sloppy and you have to double check everything because so few people do a decent job at the work they do.
While I like Florida and plan to stay here, it is not the paradise people think it is. It is a lot more expensive here than it was 20 years ago but wages are pretty flat. New money from people moving here from colder parts of the U.S. and from the rest of the world is constantly pushing up housing prices. Not only this but a lot of drug traffickers, money launderers, organized crime and people with lots and lots of money fleeing foreign countries for various reasons live here and have unbalanced the economy here for the last 40 years.
There is a lot of poverty here, far more than people realize. The fact that its warm almost all the time helps hide the fact that there are a lot of homeless and very poor people that live in structures that they would not survive in through a northern winter.
I fear with all the northerners fleeing the failing northern tax ridden bankrupt northern states, that Florida might start down the same path that is causing the collapse of some of those states because they have not learned from those disasters.
Scott Perry florida heading down a bad path
Scott Perry, Amelia Island (Fernandina Beach) Yulee, Jacksonville, Like Florida Hood Blogs says-The same path! On Amelia they are pushing the poor and working class off the Island, into the woods in tents, their car. rents are way to high.
Thanks for speaking very respectfully about these towns although their is issues you weren't poking fun.
good people in all these towns
Florida will price itself right out of a populous
keep up the good work with your videos i love them
I lived in Homestead and loved it before the big Hurricane came through and decimated the homes and businesses. Raleigh is full of Spanish people. If you go through there, you think you're in a foreign country.
I know immokolee and belle glade I drove through the towns when I went to those places in 2009 I was shocked by the level of poverty that I witness I was visiting from Jamaica and I could not believe that such poverty existed in the United States of America 🇺🇸
Had family in the area- there are a "lot" of illegals in the area. Immokalee also has a huge drug problem, and the casino in the midst of a poor and working class area does not help at all.
When Rick Scott was still governor but running for the Senate, he met with a group of Pastors from there and other areas, they asked him for assistance with getting a Detox/Treatment facility out there due to the drug use etc.
There is mostly farming, and cattle, some hospitality industry...then of course the indian casino in the midst of all the poverty.
There is drug and human trafficking in these types of areas. It is great for the traveling traffickers of human misery to go through and offer their goods and re_supply their sellers I am sure.
It is sad.
Don't go to Miami gardens, unless you pack a heater. Drugs are out of control.
This city is run by corrupt black politics.
My wife and I are leaving Florida as soon as my wife retires in 2 years.
I am already retired.
We absolutely hate what Florida has become.
Where will you go? Florida has some nice tropical areas that are livable but expensive. I considered leaving but wouldn't know where to go.
@@jomamas54 Idaho or Wyoming
@@plcc07777 I never thought about those states not knowing anything about them. I'll look into it. Thank you.
Thanks! We really appreciated YOUR VEDIOS about north Florida!!! Omg!!! My wife and I was looking into buying properties there!!! Wow!!! RACISM! Thank u God!!! No way will I invest
L Bailey thats florida for ya. But depends on the area?? What area u thinking about? If your white american it wont affect u
FLORIDA HOOD VLOGS I think bailey is talking about the ignorance overall. I see Indian river and some parts of Port Saint Lucie and it’s very confederate views and it’s scary.
Mr. Bailey, racist exists everywhere. I am from Florida. It is nothing like he us making it out to be by far. I numerous mixed friends and family. I love them all. I live in Wisconsin for awhile and you want to talk about racism. I felt like I was back in the early 70tys. I am not by far racist. A true Floridian, is always friendly and willing to help someone. You can tell if someone is from Florida or a transplant from somewhere else. Please dont let this video think everyone is like that. May you have a Blessed day.
I am a native Florida boy who has grown to be a proud Florida man. And I have to say you hit the nail on the head. I drive around towns and visit friends all over this state as an Uber driver. And I love how you show the footage of the real neighborhoods and give an honest observant opinion that is reflected by data. Keep up the good work! And all of you yanks are welcome to visit but please consider retiring in your own state to help with traffic, and wildlife conservation here... you'll probly like it better anyways :)
I love this state nowhere else i'd wanna be. maybe GA or bama if i had to leave here.
The Seminoles get the money from the Casino. which by the way Immokalee is Seminole for my home.
cool. my grandfather pat had a plant nursery for years right there on the corner of n. 4th and main- or 29, I believe, for years.
In addition to the casinos they also cornered the market on selling cigarettes.
I've been here 43 years, stay away, we are full
Great
Shut up. Your ignorant. A typical Florida idiot.
Were you born in Florida? LOL. I was born and raised.
@@Simply.Homicide go home Yankee
No New York
It’s like unrealated to the video but I can’t stop thinking about how when ur in Florida, the more north you got the more southern u get
That's because the more north you go, the closer you are to Alabama. The further south you go, you're closer to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. It makes sense if you've ever looked at a map.
I live in North Florida and love it - a lot of big oak trees and hanging moss- north Florida also has a lot of clear springs and rivers- I think you could just say we are south Georgia
You know why cause yanks bought south fl then cubans bought some of them out later there are still southerners scattered out down there but most of us are in north fl
@@joelbuzbee1750 hey joel buzbee how is ken johnson
@@HawaiianLion15 Puerto Rico is the 'Caribbean'. Fyi
I grew up in soflo..Miami and Hollywood to be exact. As a healthcare provider (RN)the pay sucks compared to other states, I've lived in VA, NH, and OR and even TN paid better..I'm back in soflo because of my son right now, but I'm def leaving as soon as I can..the income has not caught up with the cost of living, compared to other states, it's crazy. Unless you're a traveler, its soooooo not worth it......
johanna garbutt Miami/Hallandale here
@@garygill5530 as soon as I get my son settled..ish...lol. it's his last year in high school and I'm helping him with that transition a bit...but yes I want to so bad I have alot of friends that have loved it. I've been on a midwifery journey and have lived in other states for internship opportunities, but that's on hold.
@@garygill5530 they have traveling assignments for lpns? Do you know the name of the agency/agencies?
@@garygill5530 thank you so much for that information, I will definitely utilize it when the time is right and pass it on.
I was sent to America by a European country (exchange teacher) in Florida actually. I rented a car from the airport but I got lost trying to go to Pompano beach. I found myself and my daughter in a ghetto and we were the only 2 white females in a nasty mini market. A "black angel" (sent by God) approached and whispered in my ear that that was a really dangerous place. He offered to lead us to Pompano beach where he first stopped at the Fire station to assure us about his good intentions. The guard agreed that indeed we were in a bad area but now we were safe! I had in my suitcase a bottle of fine cognac and I offered it to this so kind black man who rescued us. Later on I bought a townhouse in Kendall Miami, a pretty nice area...but life made me and my daughter relocate to VA, NC, GA, SC, KY. I always have a special place in my heart for Florida smth like a supernatural feeling that I had lived here in a previous life...
Come to prattville alabama next. 🙂
Just because you are in an area where people don’t look like, doesn’t mean you will be hurt. SMH….
I lived in the Fort Myers/Cape coral are on and off most of my life. I will NEVER move back again, besides the enormous drug problems, the traffic is so bad. It's certainly not the town I grew up in anymore. And you are right, SO MANY RUDE PEOPLE. But also some good people too. Ironically, the areas of Fort Myers that you mentioned were bad 50 years ago. I'm surprised you didn't include Lehigh acres. Because the crime there has gotten so out of control. The drugs on Fort Myers beach, took my only son last March, beware of even the "wealthy areas". I live in Michigan now in a beautiful small town where the biggest issue is vaping. I can live with that.
Agreed...
Thank You for taking the time to make this list so myself & others know areas to steer clear of. Although living in the Keys has always been a dream for me!! Any advice on areas out there?? Would be much appreciated. 🙂
living in the keys? you might not really understand what you are saying. Its not a place to live its a place to vacation. Marathon is the only place there worth living.
Waaay expensive place to live! But beautiful!
I'm from Brooksville and I can tell u beyond any shadow of a doubt that racism is not a huge driving factor in the city and the reason why u notice such a separation of the races is due to the fact that most white people in Brooksville either inherited large portions of land or bought and farm the land.
Dean Hall go to twigg st with your confederate flag .. and lets see how friendly the town is. Its a great area sadly its got issues to work out
Delilah Gillis 😳🤣😂🤣😂🤣 dude is confused out of his mind poor fellow
They racist but they just don’t bother you I done see kkk parties in brooksville
Or you could just not move to Florida... ha.
That’s the truth!!
I bought a brand new newly constructed Lennar Townhome in Hudson, FL, right off 589 and 52...and I love it
I bought almost 4 years ago...havent had any issues
man i drove thru at night, did not like it bro to be honest.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS holiday is just a little south of there in the same county...bad ass drug problem...its always on live pd
@@enkiea6800 yeah i was there recently, not my kinda place too many drug addicts
FLORIDA HOOD VLOGS Hudson is a scary place. Gives me the chills if I have to drive through there
I moved to Florida 2 years ago. Florida is similar to many places in the US in terms of mindset, education, and ignorance.
Very informative video! Very true content. I’m shocked your videos aren’t blowing up- Good luck with your travels my Florida brother❤️
this channel is pure gold
You should see whats coming next!
Thank you so much for your honesty!!!!!!!!!
When I lived in Orlando years ago the running joke was "Bithlo". I am not sure if things ever improved as the Orlando growth moved east.
Nope not really.. Bithlo and Christmas are no go zones!
BITHLO IS THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!@@@@
Is Orlando a nice place to live? Been thinking about moving there.
It would help your videos to include a map of the locations before each entry to your list. I live in FL and don't know some of these places.
Great idea i live here too but rarely travel. I have heard of some of them but am clueless where location is
dude..”Google Earth” is free... am confused !
@@seminolerick6845 convenience
If you need a map your not from Florida.
Most all of them is surrounding lake Okeechobee.
As a retiree, if you have enough money, you can live anywhere.
I’d live in Lehigh acres.
Brooksville: sounds good.
I will go live to south of Brooksville. Next month. I'm mexican. Hahaha i need worry??
So why are Florida's rural towns and newly developed cities poor?
1. Rural towns - no "industrial" jobs, no service jobs since no one afford services. Not unique to Florida. Exception that I am aware of - Perry, FL is booming with industrial development and looking much better in the last 10-20 years.
2. Poverty in the cities - low wages in an expensive area. Illegal employment is rampant and is driving down wages. Not unique to Florida.
Hey, enjoyed your video. This is first I have seen from you, I will check out some more!!
Thanks!!
Greg Kiser plenty more good videos on florida!! Check em out!!
It gets more and more and more expensive everywhere because you keep coming down and raising the prices.
It breaks my heart to see those places in my Home State in such poverty. I have spend a lot of time in South Florida . Yet it was in the Coco Beach Area. Mostly older retired people or in my case. All family members worked at the Cape. I prefer Northern Florida. However all places have there own set of issues.
In Northwest Florida housing is not commiserate with income anymore. Hurricanes and tornados regularly take out blocks of neighborhoods and new homes are not being built to replace them causing an affordable housing shortage. Also, we absorb each other's displaced residents after disasters, contibuting more to the lack of housing and the predicatable housing price gouging that ensues. I think your title should specify that you cover South Florida ONLY. There's A LOT more to Florida than just the tip and a lot more poverty and blight and crime than you give us credit for..
Graduated high school in 1961 in Vero Beach Florida . I left in 63, I have no intentions of ever going back if I can avoid it. there was no jobs for high-school kid, the only thing you had was the service industry. if you were lucky you could get a job at Piper aircraft but they were due to a lot of layoffs. I don't have any desire to go back to any part of Florida.
#7 Arcadia, as Ronald Reagan once said "Arcadia is a town without compassion", after the Ray brothers, a family of hemophiliacs were burned out.
It was about AIDS. people were afraid for their children in school.
@@cliftonbanks5590 Clifton, I hope you never turn your back on "people", as did the town of Arcadia.
I’m calling you out on Fort Myers. This is a nice place to live and people aren’t rude. It does not cater to low income people however. There is crime everywhere you go. There is always a seedy neighborhood in every town. If you have money you can build or buy a beautiful home in Fort Myers. I don’t find this area rude at all.
I lived in Sarasota my whole life. My husband and I visit brooksville alot because he likes to fish up there. We always get stares and looks all the time. My husband got called a n***** lover a few times. We eventually stopped going up there because I became pregnant and my husband didn't want our kids to see that. I'm a Afrolatina ( which means half black half hispanic) and he's white.
So sorry about those people honey....we are not ALL like that.
Wow sounds like a backwoods area with ignorant people!!!
Till you knock one of those racist ass trumpers out!!
They're gonna learn!
Spot on honest.
Note...The Seminole Indians own that Casino.
I love Florida.
Good video.
Good Luck in Alabama.
Thanks for sharing this video. Learned a lot.
I live in Marco island so yesterday I decided to go see the town called imokalle OMG you're told the honest truth.
And u are rich and a snob. Enjoy ur money honey.
Beautiful state locals don’t have the money to enjoy it
Augusta Williams Jr that’s like NYC
@@thetrashcanamerica3878 nah.
Beach Town Reseller they don’t pay well in Florida for even tourism related work
It’s an unaffordable place even for the people who’ve lived here their whole life. Everything that’s being built in south Florida is luxury and just the starting prices are so high I mean 300k for an apt in downtown it’s 800k! It’s becoming like California as the housing is going to start getting way out of hand on top of property taxes and insurance. Just be paying out the bum just to live and be stuck in a lot of traffic
Exactly. Property tax, insurance, rent, all going up. Unfortunately, the salaries do not.
And then u see those in Miami riding the 2020 Mercedes-Benz and BMWS cars.... living in either a studio or on the water. It's all a front
10. Labelle
9.Hudson
8. Brooksville
7. Arcadia
6. Immokalee
5. Sebring
4. Ft. Myers
3. Pahokee+Clewiston+Harlem+Belle+South Bay+Indiantown
2. Cities south of Miami- Homestead+Florida city+Perrine
1. Hialeah+ SW Miami+ Opa Locka
Thanks for your honesty.
More so, his opinion!
Well done, I cover the state and agree with all of your stats and locations. The developers will fix it!
OR MAKE IT WORST LOL
Developers will ruin this state. They are the fucking problem to begin with them and the yankees
I am sitting on my couch laughing my butt off. I don't know where you got your information from , cause you seem to have left out Orlando Apopka Winter Garden Ocoee Altamonte Springs Sanford I could go on forever it doesn't matter where you move to there is always good and bad places to live. I'm 5th generation Floridian and moved from there in 2005 and have not missed it at all. Do better recherche on Florida and just don't go by what you read, go into those city's and townes and talk to the people that live there.
Yeah, I lived in the Orlando/Kissimmee area for 12 years and I watched the video thinking I'd see places I remembered (like many of the places you mentioned). Christmas was... interesting. The only place mentioned in the video that I had been to was Sebring, and what little I saw while I was there wasn't bad, but wasn't too exciting either.
Orlando is only terrible because of tourists,homeless people and drugs and traffic
Don't forget Jacksonville. It's bad
Check spelling before hit send. :)
Carol Farrar apopka is probably one of the biggest ghettos in Florida
Sooo glad for your videos of educating us, For those of us who are thinking of moving to Florida, Cuz before I saw your videos, I was seriously contemplating on moving there maybe next yr. But now I'm re thinking it, & I'm not going to risk losing everything, So I've completely changed my plans about moving down there from Pa.
U can move to Texas instead
From Arcadia, you're not wrong! We do have Port Charlotte south of us which is closer than Sarasota as far as shopping and jobs but it's still a 30 minute drive. But your right about everything else! The mining is a real issue along with the gang activity! I'll leave it at that!
Homestead: I know a family there--well to do and employed by the Hospital there🌵🌴🌱🐚 Great fruit trees there❤️
Homestead came a long way up after Hurricane Andrew. It looked like Berlin after the blitz back then.
Almost a whole 2 minutes just looking at dead hogs in Sebring.
were sleeping einstein
Lol
The best part about it is that you don't need a hunting license to fill your freezer, and it's the best pork you ever tasted.
They call that a Saturday night.
Hudson is the armpit of Florida
the butt LOL
I live in Hudson is good is like
Moon lake is the nutsack
Absolute shit box. It’s a scary place
lived there in the 80's almost starved to death would not eat 2 days a week so i could have money to buy gas to go to work as an elect on construction did not drink or smoke or gamble or do drugs Florida is not a place if you have to work .
Hey I live in Naples. But I want buy some in Lehigh. Can’t afford to live in Naples. I bet been watching your video on Lehigh. So practically there’s no where safe to live over there. Or what do u recommend is a safer area over there? Now I’m really changing my mind. Cuz I see it’s not a good neighborhood. What would u suggest ? Naples the land is gone up high. Which sucks.
Born and raised in Miami here. I once took the Metrorail (if you're from Miami you'll know what I'm talking about) to the wrong stop, I forget if it was Overtown or Brownsville but when I got off and went downstairs there were about 50 Black kids yelling and screaming curse words at me telling me they were gonna rob me and kill me if I didn't give them my money. LOL. I was scared shitless. It was the wrong stop. Thankfully the old station attendant told me to get out of there before I get beat up or worse. The police did come eventually and kicked those kids away. NW Miami is VERY rough and if you're not from the neighborhood there and Black you need to stay away. Lots of angry African American folks live there who hate Hispanics and White people and anyone else who's not Black.
Also born and raised here, back in the 60's, my brother and I somehow drove in the wrong part of Miami, We were approached by some black people, yelling at us to get out of their neighborhood, a scary moment for us
Road the metrorail once or twice when it first opened, can't imagine what it's like now. South Fla has changed so much and crime has increased, but seems it doesn't matter where you live
@@vickipaez6945 South Florida has become a nightmare. It's not just the crime but it's become a sort of LA or NY of the South. Way too many people, too much traffic, bad attitudes, rudeness, no sense of community, and it's gotten so expensive. I actually never really liked it there and have been living away from there for the most part since 2002. My family kept me moving back a few times after living in New York and out West. I finally left for the last time and never looked back, in 2015. I now live in Arizona and love it here. It's way better.
Yup New Port Richey Port Richey horrible 😝. Should have stayed in Louisiana ⚜ bad decision on my part. BUT Florida is beautiful.
I live in Port Richey and I happen to like it here it seems a little bit more convenient and the rents affordable compared to Pinellas County
From what I have seen it's not that bad but I have been told that it's a pill popping shit hole.
I agree I'm from NJ it's rough here. but holiday and NPR are rough areas.Good and bad everywhere!